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Residual calibration errors are difficult to predict in interferometric radio polarimetry because they depend on the employed observational calibration strategy, encompassing the Stokes vector of the calibrator and parallactic angle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 C. A. Hales

Preliminary VLBA polarisation results on 6 ``blazars'' from 6.5-cm to 7-mm are presented here. Observing at several different wavelengths, separated by short and long intervals, enabled reliable information about the magnetic (B) field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-02 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

We employ synthetic observations obtained with MHD simulations to study how to trace the distribution of turbulent magnetic fields using the synchrotron polarization gradient techniques suggested by Lazarian \& Yuen (2018). Both synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Bo Yang , Yue Hu

Faraday tomography, the study of the distribution of extended polarized emission by strength of Faraday rotation, is a powerful tool for studying magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of our Galaxy and nearby galaxies. The strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Cameron L. Van Eck

Accurately measuring the geometry and spatially-varying reflectance of real-world objects is a complex task due to their intricate shapes formed by concave features, hollow engravings and diverse surfaces, resulting in inter-reflection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jing Yang , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Qing Zhang , Yajie Zhao

The idea that systematic Faraday Rotation gradients across the parsec-scale jets of AGNs can reveal the presence of helical magnetic (B) fields has been around since the early 1990s. These gradients are taken to be due to the systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Mehreen Mahmud , Colm P. Coughlan , Eoin Murphy , Denise C. Gabuzda , Redmond Hallahan

We present the first spectropolarimetric radio observations that apply Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis to interferometric data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 610 MHz. Spectropolarimetry requires measurement of a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 J. S. Farnes , D. A. Green , N. G. Kantharia

It has recently been suggested that conduction-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities may operate at all radii within an intracluster medium (ICM), and profoundly affect the structure of a cluster's magnetic field. Where MHD…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tamara Bogdanovic , Christopher Reynolds , Richard Massey

Both the emission properties and evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) radio jets are dependent on the magnetic (B) fields that thread them. Faraday Rotation measurements are a very important way of investigating these B fields, and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-09 Eoin Murphy , Colm Coughlan , Denise Gabuzda

Interferometric closure invariants encode calibration-independent details of an object's morphology. Excepting simple cases, a direct backward transformation from closure invariants to morphologies is not well established. We demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Lucas Hoefs , O. Ivy Wong

We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Lee Whittaker , Richard A. Battye , Michael L. Brown

Interest in the study of magnetic fields and the properties of interstellar dust, explored through increasingly capable far-IR/submillimeter polarimetry, along with maturing detector technology, have set the stage for a transformative leap…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 C. Darren Dowell , Brandon S. Hensley , Marc Sauvage

Magnetic field strengths in objects ranging from HII regions to cosmological large scale structure can be estimated using dense grids of Rotation Measures (RMs) from polarized background radio structures. Upcoming surveys on the SKA and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-29 Lawrence Rudnick

Magnetized plasmas traversed by linearly polarized light will reveal their presence by the frequency dependent Faraday rotation of the angle of polarization. The regions surrounding the black holes powering the jets in AGNs are expected to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-12 W. D. Cotton , E. Kravchenko , Y. Kovalev , E. Fomalont

We study the effects of high optical depth and density on the performance of a light-atom quantum interface. An in-situ imaging method, a dual-port polarization contrast technique, is presented. This technique is able to compensate for…

The S-band Polarisation All Sky Survey (SPASS/ATCA) rotation measure (RM) catalogue is the largest broadband RM catalogue to date, increasing the RM density in the sparse southern sky. Through analysis of this catalogue, we report a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 S. Ranchod , S. A. Mao , R. Deane , S. S. Sridhar , A. Damas-Segovia , J. D. Livingston , Y. K. Ma

We utilized the Very Large Array to make multifrequency polarization measurements of 20 radio sources viewed through the IC 1805 HII region and "Superbubble", as well as in the immediate vicinity. The measurements at frequencies between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-24 Allison H. Costa , Steven R. Spangler

We discuss the experimental techniques used to date for measuring the changes in polarization state of a laser produced by a strong transverse magnetic field acting in a vacuum. We point out the likely artifacts that can arise in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-10 Christopher C. Davis , Joseph Harris , Robert W. Gammon , Igor I. Smolyaninov , Kyuman Cho

Next-generation spectro-polarimetric broadband surveys will probe cosmic magnetic fields in unprecedented detail, using the magneto-optical effect known as Faraday rotation. However, non-parametric methods such as RMCLEAN can introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Bryan M. Gaensler

We describe the fringe packet tracking system used to equalise the optical path lengths at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) interferometer. The measurement of closure phases requires obtaining fringes on three baselines…

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